erdbeergold Catering

erdbeergold Catering's own page for its "Störkoch" service ends with an unusual promise: the cook who comes to work in your kitchen leaves it cleaner, guaranteed, than he found it. That one line explains this Lucerne business better than its slogan does. "Alles ausser gewöhnlich," everything except ordinary, sits on nearly every page of the site, but the Störkoch page is the one place it gets specific about what that phrase covers in practice: a chef, or "Störköchin" in the site's own feminine form, who works inside someone else's home rather than a delivery truck.

The page frames this as a private booking, not a corporate one, and opens with a line that sets the scale: "25 Freunde bekochen," cooking for 25 friends, which the site itself calls a lot of effort and frayed nerves for a host to take on alone. The Störkoch takes that off your hands instead. He brings every ingredient with him and builds a menu to your own wishes, you're welcome to watch over his shoulder and ask questions while he works, and you can serve your own favourite wine with no corkage fee charged on top. On the enquiry form, Störkoch sits as its own selectable line, alongside Event-Catering, Messe-Catering and Hochzeit-Catering rather than folded into any of them, which matches how the nav bar treats it: a named, bounded product, not a footnote to the wedding page.

Hochzeits-Catering, the wedding-specific line, is a separate page entirely, and it sells itself with a scene rather than a menu: 200 guests toasting in the autumn sun beside a lake. That's an illustrative moment on the page, not a stated capacity, but it does the job of signalling a different scale from the Störkoch's living-room format. The same page mentions organising a BBQ and grill setup for a couple who specifically asked for one, alongside the more conventional apéro-and-menu planning any caterer offers. Both this page and the Störkoch page carry a heading reading "Musterangebot" (sample offer), which sounds like it should lead to a price list. It doesn't. Checked directly, the heading is followed only by a paragraph promising a personal quote on request, with no document, link or figure underneath it anywhere on the site. That's true of most Swiss caterers and isn't a mark against this one specifically, but it does mean a number only appears once you've already made contact.

A history built at altitude, not at the altar

The company's own blog carries more corporate work than wedding work, and it reads as a genuine credential rather than padding. erdbeergold has catered the World Economic Forum in Davos a fourth time as of 2026, a stint that ran 6 days and fed between 250 and 300 guests a day inside Ochsner Sport and Decathlon stores that were converted for the week into meeting spaces and kitchens, working alongside a Singapore-based partner, TPC. The 2024 forum, its third time there, sat at 1560 metres above sea level by its own account, and had the team running breakfasts, business lunches and evening receptions for clients it describes as ranging from a CEO to an ambassador, closing with a champagne bar on the final evening and 2 named staff running a bourbon tasting. Closer to home, erdbeergold catered a company event for the dairy brand Emmi in the Kaltbach caves near Sursee, in canton Lucerne, serving 50 employees a 3-course dinner built around the brand's own Kaltbach cheese for a product-launch evening.

None of that is wedding work on its face, but it's the same 6-person team that turns up at a reception too: José Manuel Perino, the company's founder and, in his own words in an interview, its managing director, plus 5 colleagues the About page credits by name and a nickname role, among them a "kulinarische Künstlerin" (culinary artist) and a "Flammen Künstler" (flame artist, presumably the grill). In that same interview Perino is candid about what actually goes wrong at a wedding: a delivery of cutlery once failed to arrive, leaving plates, glasses and napkins but no forks or knives, until a staff member drove to the supplier and fetched a set before any guest noticed. It's a small anecdote, but it's a specific one, and it says more about how the business handles a real wedding day than any of its marketing copy does. One testimonial on the homepage, signed by a couple named Seraina and Roger Ammann, thanks the team specifically for the apéro at their own wedding reception in Lucerne.

As far as Ticino, and willing to plan the trip

erdbeergold's own blog recommends Centro Dannemann in Brissago, on the shore of Lago Maggiore, as a Ticino wedding location, with the lawn by the water described as suited to a "freie Trauung," a free-standing, symbolic ceremony. The post offers to help with the site visit, the quote, the apéro and dinner, hotel bookings in Brissago, and a shuttle for guests who stay out later than planned, and it signs off in Italian. That's the company's own account of catering a wedding well outside its Lucerne base, in a different language region of the country, rather than a hypothetical pitch. The same reach shows up on the corporate side in harder numbers: the event-catering page states a spread from 10 to 1500 guests nationwide, "von Basel bis Ascona, von St. Gallen über Zürich bis nach Genf," Basel to Ascona, St Gallen through Zurich to Geneva. Its separate landing pages for Zurich, Aargau, Basel and Zug add nothing beyond the canton's name, so the substance sits in that nationwide claim rather than in any one regional page.

It can help you find someone to lead a ceremony, not perform one

Among the extras erdbeergold coordinates on request (musicians, magicians, comedians, professional photographers), its own service page lists "Freie Zeremonieleiterinnen/-leiter," independent ceremony officiants, sitting in the same list as the entertainment and decor. That's squarely the symbolic half of a Swiss wedding day. A marriage becomes legally binding in Switzerland only when a civil registrar performs it, somewhere the canton has approved, and nothing anywhere on erdbeergold's site claims to arrange that part; the registrar and the canton's approval go entirely unmentioned. What's on offer is someone to lead a free-standing ceremony, the kind couples add alongside or instead of a registry appointment, and it's worth treating them as separate bookings rather than assuming a caterer's list of extras covers the legal side of the day.

The German-only gap a couple planning from abroad would hit first

The site runs entirely in German. Its own HTML declares lang="de", there's no language switcher anywhere in the nav or footer, and no page in its sitemap exists in English. Nothing on the site claims English service in either direction; the enquiry form itself, asking for guest count and event date, is German-only. For a couple based outside Switzerland this is the detail worth confirming directly and early, before assuming a tasting, a contract or the wedding day itself would run in English: erdbeergold's own published material gives no signal either way, and the silence shouldn't be read as either a yes or a no.

Who's actually asking for which line

A couple wanting their own kitchen turned into a private restaurant for an evening with 25 friends has a specific, named product to ask about, the Störkoch, rather than the standard Hochzeits-Catering reception. A couple planning a bigger day gets the benefit of a team that has just run a 6-day World Economic Forum catering stint and catered a 50-guest product launch for a national dairy brand, which is a harder resume to build than any slogan. What's missing from erdbeergold's own site is exactly what a couple from outside Switzerland would need most: a number, a currency, or a language commitment. None of those show up until you've already picked up the phone or filled in the form, so budget the time to ask for them directly, in whichever language you end up finding out works.